After going five rounds with champion Dominick
Cruz in December 2010, Jorgensen transitioned to the UFC and
won his first two fights. He’s since dropped three of his last
four, though, while facing some very tough competition in Renan Barao,
Eddie
Wineland and Urijah
Faber.

“I had plans on moving down to 125 before I fought Faber,”
Jorgensen said. “I stayed up at 135 to fight Urijah. The deal is,
it has nothing to do with wins or losses. It’s more the physical
side of the game … . It doesn’t matter how much I lift or how fast
I get or how much I learn in jiu-jitsu or boxing. I am 5-foot-5
with a 66-inch reach. The guys at my weight class are gravitating
towards 5-9, 5-10, [with a] 70-plus-inch reach.”

Jorgensen credits his jiu-jitsu coach and also Joe Warren
for suggesting the move to 125. He ran some tests after the Faber
loss and found himself at 12 percent body fat -- six percent higher
than when he was wrestling in college. A couple of months later,
after cleaning up his diet and starting a running regimen, he’d
already dropped 10 pounds.

“I’m happy with fighting Ian,” Jorgensen said. “It’s a good fight
for both of us. I didn’t expect to come down and get a newcomer or
anything like that. I expected to get shoved into the mix, and I
got it.”

McCall just notched his first UFC win Aug. 3 when he outpointed
Iliarde
Santos. However, as recently as last year, “Uncle Creepy”
fought eventual UFC flyweight champion Demetrious
Johnson to a draw.

“I think he’s going to be using definitely his kicks,” Jorgensen
said. “After watching him, they don’t look like they’re stopping
guys. If he wants to throw a thousand leg kicks at me, he can. I’ll
eventually drag his ass to the ground. I expect him to pop shots
and move and try to stay away from me catching ahold of him, either
with my hands or actually physically dragging him to the ground. I
don’t think he wants to go to the ground with me.”

Jorgensen is planning on a fun fight with McCall and of course a
win. He believes it’s the start of what will prove a triumphant
journey at 125 pounds.

“When I get down there, I’m going to walk through people,”
Jorgensen said. “I’m going to hurt people and then I’m going to
slowly crawl my way to the top of that 125-pound mountain and prove
that everything I did was worth it.”